Discharge Book numbering from WW 2 to 1972 for British seamen

[Hugh]

Once again i ask why?? So many of you are giving your Discharge Numbers and the Year, some Numbers are just two digits, why all the secrecy!
Come on Lads please give the Full Number , unless you have forgotten it and only remember the start digit!????

Also as i have requested before on this Thread, i will and cannot add those names and Numbers etc unless you give the full details, that is
Your First Ship, your full Number the Year and which Company!

I suspect a couple of things are going on here.
Firstly, some don't want to give out their full Dis. A number - not really surprising as it is a way of identifying you online and in this day and age with ID theft some people are reluctant to do this. That is why all sites invite you to join using a user name so you display that rather than give personal details. Some choose to do so other choose not to.

Secondly - this thread was started by David Snook quite some time ago in his research about when Dis.A numbers were issued and I think it has moved way off the original topic. So some give the numbers to aid the original poster's question and others give the number for Doc's project. As of my post we now have 31 pages since the question was first asked by David in 2012.

Regards
Hugh

[j.sabourn]

To me the first thing I see is a person who does not disclose his discharge book number is suspect to even his name. JS

[Bob McGahey]

Mine is R 419585 issued jan 13th. 1949 .at Leith.

[j.sabourn]

#305 I was in that shipping office once I think Bob as was on a ship being sold to Cories of Cardiff which had an indian crew and as third mate had to take them up to the shipping office to get their injections .As a young man I felt very embarrassed as like all indian or lascar crews they lined up in single file and with the Serang behind me formed a long snake behind me according to rank and stepping off in the knee high walk they had we started off .There were the usual catcalls from the locals but we persevered and got there and back , the only incident being the cat calls from the dead heads . That was about 1958. CheersJS

[John Aikenhead]

If of any help mine was; R868587 Issued Jan 27 1969 at South Shields (Tyne & Wear Ports)

[j.sabourn]

#307. That was the day I celebrated my 7th wedding anniversary , think I was in Montreal though so had to celebrate by myself as usual. Maybe had the 7 year itch ? Cheers jS
John in Oz is now going to bring Marilyn Monroe into the equation as believe she was the star in the film. No John I couldn’t find her . Anyhow she had her own problems with the Kennedy family. Cheers JS

[happy daze john in oz]

Marilyn was not the problem it was the sort of people she mixed with.
Should have stayed with that baseball man, but in the end picked the wrong base and was hit for a home run.

[Malcolm Bennington]

Mine was R 760284 Issued in Hull Nov. 6th 1961.

I sailed with a a 3rd Eng (I think) named Snook in the 70,s he had his wife with him, any relation?

best wishes Malcolm (Bennington)

[Ravenglass]

Again if it is any help my DB number was R859434. First ship I joined as Junior Lecky was Ottawa at Hebburn in July 1968.

[Roger5261]

Hi David mine is R711908 issued 4 September 1959 Mike Alexander

My Discharge book issued April 1972 is numbered R908118. 'R' numbers continued up December 1972. January 1973 they became 'UK' numbers up until 1995 when they became 'DB' numbers.